Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus help over 20 million people live meaningful lives with less through their website, books, podcast, and documentary. The Minimalists have been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Forbes, TIME, ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, CBC, and NPR.

The remote control made this search easier than ever: you can navigate a thousand channels without leaving your couch, flipping endlessly through channel after channel after channel until you find something better.

Television isn’t the only place in which we constantly search for something better: we flip through every aspect of our lives—food, relationships, entertainment, work—all the while looking for anything other than what’s in front of us.

The problem is, in a world of unlimited choices, there actually isalways something better somewhere. So, even when we find something we like—something we enjoy—it’s never enough, and we yearn for something else.

The key is to be happy with the channel you’re watching: if you’re not happy, take action, change the channel—work hard to change your situation—but once you find something you like, enjoy it.

Once you enjoy your life you will grow, and eventually the channel will change on its own.